DBMS > FatDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Spark SQL

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#354	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS

Score	9.32
Rank	#52	Overall
	#10	Document stores

Score	22.86
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

FatCloud

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

3.2.0, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

user defined procedures and functions

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

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